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Handsome Guys
(Haenseomgaijeu,
핸섬가이즈)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 7 2024
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(Haenseomgaijeu,
핸섬가이즈)
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Director – Nam Dong-hyub – 2024 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 15 – 102m **** A comedy of errors in horror genre clothing, features a house in which accidents keep occurring, and a demonic goat – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runs in cinemas from Friday, November 1st to Wednesday, […]

Tags accident, accidents, appearance, banished to hell, basement, benefit of the doubt, Bin Chan-wook, body bag, British priest, burial, carpentry, co-operation with the law, college student, comedy of errors, comic invention, countryside, cute dog, demon, demonic goat, dog, dog Bong-gu, dream home, entourage, face value, foul play, girlfriend, goat, goat corpse, golf, Gong Seung-yeon, half-brothers, hearts of gold, hit-and-run driver, horror, horror genre clothing, innocent explanation, Jamie Horan, Jang Dong-joo, Kang Ki-doong, kidnap, Kim Do-hoon, Korea, Lee Kyu-hyung, Lee Sung-min, LKFF, LKFF 2024, London Korean Film Festival, London Korean Film Festival 2024, lowlife criminal, Park Jeong-hwa, Park Ji-hwan, partially-shredded body, party animal, police car, police chief, priest, remake, rescue, roadkill, rural, selfie, serial killers, shopping trolley, snap judgements, South Korea, spoiled brat, students, supermarket, truck, unkempt appearance, wood chipper, wrong conclusions

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The Crazy Family
Gyakufunsha Kazoku,
逆噴射家族)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 20 2024
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Gyakufunsha Kazoku,
逆噴射家族)
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Director – Sogo Ishii – 1984 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 105m ***** After proudly moving into their first home as owner-occupiers, a family go berserk and destroy the building – out on Blu-ray on Monday, June 17th This seemingly starts out as a conservative family drama. The family in question comprises father Katsukuni […]

Tags a place to live, accommodation, armour, baseball bat, basement, bicycle, biker gang, bravado, breadwinner, build, building work, catalyst, Chinese, coffee, defensive, derelict, digging, drama, drill, failure, family, family unit, father, floor, flyover, grandfather, hand-held, head of the family, Hitoshi Ueki, home, horror, house implosion, housewife, housing, husbands and wives, idol singer, intimacy, intimate, Japan, Japanese cinema, JG Ballard, Katsuya Kobayashi, killing, kitchen implements, living room, living room floor, Mitsuko Baisho, mother, naive, nuclear family, office job, one-piece swimsuit, outer space, owner-occupiers, parents and children, pixelation, poison, power tool, primal types, public housing, rape, rape as weapon of war, room, run, salaryman, school, Second Sino-Japanese War, Second World War, SF, sibling, sick, social breakdown, societal norms, Sogo Ishii, soldier, streets, studying, suburbia, sword, teenage, threat, train, turmoil, uniform, university, upstairs, warrior, weapon of war, white ant, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yoshiki Arizono, Youki Kudoh

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Twisters

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 16 2024
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Director – Lee Isaac Chung – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 117m Film ***1/2 Special Effects (the twisters themselves) ***** A young woman attempts to compensate for failed “twister taming” which caused the tragic deaths of three of her friends, by further pursuing tornadoes – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, July 17th […]

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Minions:
The Rise Of Gru

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 1 2022
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The Rise Of Gru
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Directors – Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson, Jonathan del Val – 2022 – US – Cert. U – 87m ***1/2 Three plots involving the Minions, their pre-teen, supervillain master Gru and a gang of supervillains called Vicious 6 compete with each other – out in cinemas on Friday, July 1st This starts off bravely for a […]

Tags 1970s, 3D animation, action, action star, Afro hair, Alan Arkin, animation, audience expectation, basement, blaxploitation, Bond villain, Brad Ableson, caper movies, car chase, CG, CG animation, computer animation, cops, cops and robbers, crab, crab-pincer, crocodiles, Danny Trejo, desert, disco diva, Dolph Lundgren, family, family film, family movie, franchise, franchise expectation, freeze-frame, gadgetry, gang, home viewing platforms, Illuminations, Illuminations animation, James Bond, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jonathan del Val, Julie Andrews, Kyle Balda, Lucy Lawless, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, merch, merchandising, Michelle Yeoh, minions, nun, nunchaku, passenger aircraft, pastiche, Pierre Coffin, pincer, record store, Russell Brand, Scandinavian, spy movies, Steve Carell, supervillains, surrogate family, swimming pool, Taraji P. Henson, US, vignette, voice acting

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Operation Mincemeat

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 14 2022
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Director – John Madden – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 127m ***** The British WW2 deception involving a corpse and fake documents to make Germany think the Allies are landing in Greece rather than Sicily – out in cinemas on Friday, April 15th At the height of World War II, the Allies plan […]

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A Quiet Place

Director – John Krasinski – 2018 – UK – Cert. 15 – 90m ***** A family live on an isolated farm on an Earth where alien predators hunt by sound – out on DVD, Blu-ray and selected online services NB This is the original film, not A Quiet Place Part II currently in cinemas. The […]

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Barking Dogs
Never Bite
(Flandersui Gae,
플란다스의 개)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 19 2020
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Never Bite
(Flandersui Gae,
플란다스의 개)

Director – Bong Joon Ho – 2000 – South Korea – 110m ****1/2 Available exclusively on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, September 18th. Lecturer Yun-ju (Lee Sun-jae) is looking out the window of his apartment in a block of flats and having been recently passed over for a professorship is on the phone to a […]

Tags apartment, balcony, bank, barking, basement, binoculars, block of flats, Bong Joon Ho, burial, chase, colleague, cooking, corridor, dogs, Doona Bae, ghost, haves and have-nots, homeless, janitor, Korea, news report, posters, professor, repair, rooftop, South Korea, urban

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Love & Peace
(ラブ＆ピース)

Director – Sion Sono – 2015 – Japan – Cert. PG – 117m ***** Blu-ray available at Arrow Video’s Third Window Films Shop. Sion Sono’s wonderfully insane, four-hour art-house epic Love Exposure (2008) made great waves on its UK release and for this writer, the extraordinary Love & Peace (2015) is a welcome return to […]